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I love JESUS! I'm a 7th-generation Florida native, dyed-in-the-wool Southron belle. I just recently dusted off my genealogy notes and, thanks to a long-lost relative, nearly doubled the details. We started home schooling when only 'outlaws' did it and still enjoy a daily quest for knowledge. These days, the family spends a lot of time birding, butterflying, spending as much time in 'the woods' as possible while they're still here.

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13 February 2008

We have a winner!

There were two, foraging in the shallows of the lake at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve. Neither was much interested in being photographed. They stayed half-hidden in the branchy tangle of a tree limb dangling in the water.

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I learned something in this exercise, Sophie. Previously, I didn't know there was a red band above the knee on moorhens. In fact, when your first two clues were posted, I thought the red was a refracted bit of light giving an untrue image. You're pretty sneaky, aren't you? I didn't take the red seriously and was almost settled on Gadwall as the most likely -- but not perfect -- answer. But then I checked the book one more time for other yellow-legged swimmers, and what do you know...Common Moorhens have red on their thighs! I realized that I had been seeing your photo wrongly, that the red was an important part, not an aberration of light.

So I kind-of bumbled into it. But it made swampangel growl at me, so it was worth it! Good puzzle.